WILLIAM CARRICK and others

Russian views and portraits, circa 1860s-70s

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WILLIAM CARRICK and others
Russian views and portraits, circa 1860s-70s
Fifty-eight albumen prints, one 17 x 14 in. with arched corners, mountedon card, matted; twenty-two carte-de-visite-size, three panoramic format, 4.3/8 x 12½ in., other sizes approx. 4 x 6¼ in. to 10 x 8 in. or the reverse, one signed [?Huard] and several numbered in the negatives, mounted on album leaves, titled in ink on mounts. (58)

拍品专文

Views in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Nijni including the Tower of Ivan Veleka, the Cathedral of the Assumption, and one of five men posed around the Czar Cannon, the Sonkorsff (sic) Tower, the Great Bell of Moscow, three panoramic views of Nijni Novgorod, the Church at Ostamkins, a view of the Kremlin seen from the river, the convent of Troitsa; twelve views around St. Petersburg including monuments and views of the Winter Palace; portraits of the Emperor Alexander II, the Empress, the Crown Prince, Princess Dagmar, Princess Feodora and Prince Paul; Count Gregoire Stogonoff, the Grand Duchess Marie and their daughter Bebi; several portraits of Russian "types" by Carrick including a coachman, a nurse, water-carriers, a bread-seller, an artisan, a milkman, a priest and the Archbishop and Bishop of Moscow.